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258 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES apparatus contains a long & wide meatus running inwards, backwards and little downwards, and open externally by a small vulvular orrifice [orifice] very close to the papebral [palpebral] fissure, - The lungs and heart resemble the marsupia. The heart having two auricles and two ventricles - the Diaphraghm [diaphragm] semi tendinous, the stomach very small and empty not more than three quarter of an inch long and opening obliquely into the Duodenum, Liver large, Gall bladder large, & full of a reddish fluid. Cistic duct large, Pancras [pancreas] large consisting of two entromities and one body, Kidneys large. the Kidneys, Vas Deferans [vas deferens] large & tortuous, bladder large in the Male & small in the female - The alimentary canal about three yards long of a simple structure with a large vermiform appendage. The Ureters of the Male open into the cloacae internal to the Sphincter uni - The Penis very peculiar, the head or glans for folded back for about two inches within the prepuce & covered with rough spines or papilae [papillae] {resembling the palate of a cow} and all lying from the glans to the pubes. The glams were two headed and on the top of each head were four spires coming to a point in the centre of which were openings for the emission of semen: The generative organs in the female correspond with the formation of the Male - The Uterus is large and capable of holding a turkeys egg and the falopian [fallopian] tubes do not enter the fundus of the uterus but join without the uterus at the top of the Vagina into which the Os. uteri open, the falopian [fallopian] tubes are large & seem as if the head or glans of the penis entered on each side, & the seminal fluid into those tubes, & remains there until the Ovae were impregnited [impregnated] after which they are taken into the uterus, the semen is injected into both tubes at the same time & consequently the ovae displaced. {this of course is only a theory}. The Vagina opens into the closed above and posterior to the annus [anus] between which the uretus open. Both Male & female specimens had Rudimentary Marsupial bones Armadale 1st August 1855 -
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